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In one of my favorite IRC-channels we started decorating links with customs tags and an index (e.g [GO:23] http://example.com), this helps to refer to posted links. (And ad001, one of the channel hops wrote a neat script that collects these links and displays them on a website)

However, it would be quite inconvenient to apply this decoration manually and keep track of the index number, so I wrote a small Perl plug-in for my IRC-Client of choice, Pidgin.

To install this plug-in just download the attached linkcmd.pl file and put it in Pidgin’s plugin directory. (Note: You might need to enable Perl support on your Pidgin installation; to do so on a Windows machine, just install the correct ActivePerl distribution  As of today ActivePerl 5.10 works fine, whereas the lastest 5.12 does not work with Pidgin). The plug-in should appear in Pidgin’s plug-in manager where it can be activated and configured. You will want to change the tag to your needs and you can also change the index counter, but this shouldn’t be necessary in most cases.

To use it just enter /link yourlink during a conversation.

BTW, since the plug-in does only rely on Pidgin’s core library pibpurple, it should also work with Adium, but I haven’t tested it.

Edit: The script had a small bug that caused incorrect timestamps, this should be fixed now.